Mark Kelly
Democrat · AZ · U.S. Senate
Bio
Mark Edward Kelly is an American politician and a retired astronaut and naval officer. He is the senior United States senator from Arizona, a seat he has held since 2020. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.7 years
- First took office
- 2020 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 81 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 62
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Phoenix, AZ · 602-671-7901
- Tucson, AZ · 520-475-5177
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $150k – $350k
- Liabilities
- $265k – $550k
- Net worth
- −$400k – $85k
Largest holdings in the 2022 filing · 2 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Mark Kelly's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Mark Kelly (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Kellysits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Joint Economic Committeecenter · 20 members
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 21 members
- Senate Special Committee on Agingcenter · 13 members
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Kelly's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Why Democrats Must Embrace a “Mom Populist” Education AgendaPease Elementary in downtown Austin, Texas, has sat empty since 2020. Formerly the oldest continuously operating school in Texas, Pease was shuttered by the Austin Independent School District to save money. On a steamy day this summer, the hulking structure p…
The New Republic · Today
Forget 'No Kings' Placards, Given What Trump Is Plotting Impeach Him This MinuteYou’d never know it by the title “Dancing in the Dark,” but the Washington Spectator’s recent investigation is about the various steps (mostly illegal) Trump is taking, including the use of enforcement tools and violence, to prepare to reverse any overall Dem…
Common Dreams · August 22, 2026
Dem Sen. Kelly: Trump Is 'Focused on Vengeance'Wednesday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said President Donald Trump is focused on “vengeance.” Kelly said, “He’s not addressing the issues that the American people need a president to address, which is keep us out The post Dem Sen. Ke…
Breitbart News · August 20, 2026
Jon Ossoff Goes After Trump Again“Sen. Jon Ossoff stood next to Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on Tuesday and delivered the kind of anti-Trump broadside that has become a campaign signature, marking the latest round in an escalating feud with the White House,” CNN reports. Said Ossoff: “I don’t thi…
Politicalwire.com · August 18, 2026
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